As many as 650 doctors lost their lives during the ongoing second wave of COVID-19 in the country, J.A. Jayalal, national president of the Indian Medical Association, said on Sunday.
Addressing an online workshop for doctors on “Deciphering and dealing with deaths – facts and insights,” he said many of them were young and extremely bright professionals. He said India lost 753 doctors during first wave.
Recollecting the recent attack on a doctor in Assam, Dr. Jayalal said the medical fraternity was vulnerable to such attacks in the absence of adequate mechanisms to ensure their safety.
He said the pandemic had exposed the lack of dignity in deaths in India, with many bodies floating in the Ganga and people having to cremate bodies on roadsides. He said this had resulted in the National Human Rights Commission issuing an advisory to State and Union governments.
A number of doctors from across the country shared their expertise on different aspects of dealing with deaths in…